- Email: [email protected]
LLNL licenses carbon nano-tube technology for desalination to Porifera
CALENDAR
EVENTS CALENDAR 24–25 March 2010
28–30 April 2010
DME Seminar on Membranes in Seawater Desalination
International Symposium on Membrane Biofouling: Science and Solutions
Duisburg, Germany Contact: DME GmbH, Bismarckstrasse 120 47057 Duisburg, Germany Tel: +49 203 306 4250 Fax: +49 203 306 4255 Email: [email protected] www.DME-eV.de
Bisbee, Arizona, USA Contact: AquaMem Scientific Consultants PO Box 251, Rodeo NM 88056, USA Tel: +1 877 5572275 Email: [email protected] www.ISMB-2010.com
6–8 April 2010
9–12 June 2010
ASIAWATER 2010 – 6th Asiawater Expo & Forum
8th Scientific Conference on Membranes and Membrane Processes in Environmental Protection
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Contact: Merebo Messe Marketing Jakobikirchhof 9, 20095 Hamburg Germany Tel: +49 40 399 9905 0 Fax: +49 40 399 9905 25 Email: [email protected] www.merebo.com, www.asiawater.merebo.com
18–21 April 2010 International Scientific Conference on Pervaporation and Vapor Permeation Torun, Poland Contact: Faculty of Chemistry Nicolaus Copernicus University 7 Gagarina Street 87–100 Torun, Poland Tel: +48 56 611 4315 Fax: +48 56 654 2477 www.pv.chem.umk.pl
Zakopane, Poland Contact: Krystyna Konieczny Silesian University of Technology Institute of Water and Wastewater Engineering Konarskiego 18, 44–100 Gliwice, Poland Fax: +48 32 237 2368 Email: [email protected] www.ise.polsl.pl/membrany.html
27–30 June 2010 Membranes in Drinking and Industrial Water Treatment (MDIW 2010) Trondheim, Norway Contact: Professor TorOve Leiknes Norwegian University of Science and Technology Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering S.P. Andersensvei 5, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Tel: +47 7359 4758 Fax: +47 7359 1298 www.ivt.ntnu.no/ivm/english www.mbr-network.eu www.mdiw2010.no
12–15 July 2010 AMTA 2010 Annual Conference and Exposition ‘Membrane Technology: The Wave of the Future has Arrived’ San Diego, California, USA Contact: Janet Jaworski, CMP American Membrane Technology Association 2409 SE Dixie Highway Stuart, FL 34996, USA Tel: +1 772 463 0820 Fax: +1 772 463 0860 Email: [email protected] www.amtaorg.com
22–26 November 2010 AMS6/IMSTEC10 Sydney, Australia Contact: Pierre Le-Clech UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering The University of New South Wales NSW 2052, Sydney, Australia Tel: +61 2 9385 5762, Fax: +61 2 9385 5966 Email: [email protected] www.membrane.unsw.edu.au/ams6.imstec10
...Continued from page 1 Founded during 2003 in Mountain View, California, MRT quickly gained market recognition for its miniature bioreactor platform that is able to improve cell culture process development through fast and accurate assessment of bioreactor performance. Since its first product arrived on the market in 2006, it has developed HTPD systems that control, monitor and record key process parameters for multiple individual cell culture experiments in one test sequence. ‘We are excited by this acquisition and the increased opportunities it presents for our biotechnology process development and laboratory programmes,’ commented Eric Krasnoff, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pall. ‘Customers seek better tools for rapid process development and process monitoring. The addition of MRT further broadens Pall Life Sciences’ support of customers in this rapidly growing market.’ Contacts: Pall Corp, 25 Harbor Park Drive, Port Washington, NY 11050, USA. Tel: +1 516 484 5400, www.pall.com MicroReactor Technologies Inc, 897 Independence Avenue, Building 3D, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Tel: +1 650 968 4527, www.microreactor.com
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LLNL licenses carbon nano-tube technology for desalination to Porifera
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n the USA, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has exclusively licensed carbon nano-tube technology, which can be used to desalinate water and can be applied to other liquid-based separations, to Porifera Inc of Hayward, California. Carbon nano-tubes – special molecules made of carbon atoms in a unique arrangement – permit the passage of liquids and gases while their tiny pore size can block larger molecules, offering a cheaper way to remove salt from water. ‘The technology is very exciting. It is at the right place to take it to the market place,’ commented Olgica Bakajin, who serves as chief technology officer of Porifera. Bakajin formerly worked at LLNL where she was recruited in 2000 as a Lawrence Fellow and then moved on to become chief scientist on the carbon nano-tube project along with LLNL chemist Aleksandr Noy, another former Lawrence Fellow. The license was awarded through LLNL’s Industrial Partnership Office. Porifera says that it is developing membranes for water purification and other applications in the ‘clean tech’ sector such as CO2 seques-
tration. The technology is based on discoveries made at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Lawrence Livermore Lab. Recently, the team made up of Bakajin and Noy as well as another LLNL scientist, Francesco Fornasiero, and Porifera scientists Sangil Kim and Jennifer Klare, thought about different applications for the nano-tube membranes. ‘Carbon sequestration has always been at the back of our minds, as unique properties of carbon nano-tube membranes provide critical advantages for potential use in carbon sequestration applications,’ said Noy. Bakajin agrees that the membranes would separate CO2 from nitrogen in power-plant emissions. The membranes would transfer the two gases at a different rate so that the CO2 could be separated and sequestered. Sequestering CO2 is a key strategy to help curb global warming. Contact: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA 94550, USA. Tel: +1 925 422 1100, www.llnl.gov Porifera Inc, 3507 Breakwater Avenue, Hayward, CA 94545, USA. Tel: +1 510 695 2777, www.poriferanano.com
February 2010
EVENTS CALENDAR 24–25 March 2010
28–30 April 2010
DME Seminar on Membranes in Seawater Desalination
International Symposium on Membrane Biofouling: Science and Solutions
Duisburg, Germany Contact: DME GmbH, Bismarckstrasse 120 47057 Duisburg, Germany Tel: +49 203 306 4250 Fax: +49 203 306 4255 Email: [email protected] www.DME-eV.de
Bisbee, Arizona, USA Contact: AquaMem Scientific Consultants PO Box 251, Rodeo NM 88056, USA Tel: +1 877 5572275 Email: [email protected] www.ISMB-2010.com
6–8 April 2010
9–12 June 2010
ASIAWATER 2010 – 6th Asiawater Expo & Forum
8th Scientific Conference on Membranes and Membrane Processes in Environmental Protection
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Contact: Merebo Messe Marketing Jakobikirchhof 9, 20095 Hamburg Germany Tel: +49 40 399 9905 0 Fax: +49 40 399 9905 25 Email: [email protected] www.merebo.com, www.asiawater.merebo.com
18–21 April 2010 International Scientific Conference on Pervaporation and Vapor Permeation Torun, Poland Contact: Faculty of Chemistry Nicolaus Copernicus University 7 Gagarina Street 87–100 Torun, Poland Tel: +48 56 611 4315 Fax: +48 56 654 2477 www.pv.chem.umk.pl
Zakopane, Poland Contact: Krystyna Konieczny Silesian University of Technology Institute of Water and Wastewater Engineering Konarskiego 18, 44–100 Gliwice, Poland Fax: +48 32 237 2368 Email: [email protected] www.ise.polsl.pl/membrany.html
27–30 June 2010 Membranes in Drinking and Industrial Water Treatment (MDIW 2010) Trondheim, Norway Contact: Professor TorOve Leiknes Norwegian University of Science and Technology Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering S.P. Andersensvei 5, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Tel: +47 7359 4758 Fax: +47 7359 1298 www.ivt.ntnu.no/ivm/english www.mbr-network.eu www.mdiw2010.no
12–15 July 2010 AMTA 2010 Annual Conference and Exposition ‘Membrane Technology: The Wave of the Future has Arrived’ San Diego, California, USA Contact: Janet Jaworski, CMP American Membrane Technology Association 2409 SE Dixie Highway Stuart, FL 34996, USA Tel: +1 772 463 0820 Fax: +1 772 463 0860 Email: [email protected] www.amtaorg.com
22–26 November 2010 AMS6/IMSTEC10 Sydney, Australia Contact: Pierre Le-Clech UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering The University of New South Wales NSW 2052, Sydney, Australia Tel: +61 2 9385 5762, Fax: +61 2 9385 5966 Email: [email protected] www.membrane.unsw.edu.au/ams6.imstec10
...Continued from page 1 Founded during 2003 in Mountain View, California, MRT quickly gained market recognition for its miniature bioreactor platform that is able to improve cell culture process development through fast and accurate assessment of bioreactor performance. Since its first product arrived on the market in 2006, it has developed HTPD systems that control, monitor and record key process parameters for multiple individual cell culture experiments in one test sequence. ‘We are excited by this acquisition and the increased opportunities it presents for our biotechnology process development and laboratory programmes,’ commented Eric Krasnoff, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pall. ‘Customers seek better tools for rapid process development and process monitoring. The addition of MRT further broadens Pall Life Sciences’ support of customers in this rapidly growing market.’ Contacts: Pall Corp, 25 Harbor Park Drive, Port Washington, NY 11050, USA. Tel: +1 516 484 5400, www.pall.com MicroReactor Technologies Inc, 897 Independence Avenue, Building 3D, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Tel: +1 650 968 4527, www.microreactor.com
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LLNL licenses carbon nano-tube technology for desalination to Porifera
I
n the USA, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has exclusively licensed carbon nano-tube technology, which can be used to desalinate water and can be applied to other liquid-based separations, to Porifera Inc of Hayward, California. Carbon nano-tubes – special molecules made of carbon atoms in a unique arrangement – permit the passage of liquids and gases while their tiny pore size can block larger molecules, offering a cheaper way to remove salt from water. ‘The technology is very exciting. It is at the right place to take it to the market place,’ commented Olgica Bakajin, who serves as chief technology officer of Porifera. Bakajin formerly worked at LLNL where she was recruited in 2000 as a Lawrence Fellow and then moved on to become chief scientist on the carbon nano-tube project along with LLNL chemist Aleksandr Noy, another former Lawrence Fellow. The license was awarded through LLNL’s Industrial Partnership Office. Porifera says that it is developing membranes for water purification and other applications in the ‘clean tech’ sector such as CO2 seques-
tration. The technology is based on discoveries made at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Lawrence Livermore Lab. Recently, the team made up of Bakajin and Noy as well as another LLNL scientist, Francesco Fornasiero, and Porifera scientists Sangil Kim and Jennifer Klare, thought about different applications for the nano-tube membranes. ‘Carbon sequestration has always been at the back of our minds, as unique properties of carbon nano-tube membranes provide critical advantages for potential use in carbon sequestration applications,’ said Noy. Bakajin agrees that the membranes would separate CO2 from nitrogen in power-plant emissions. The membranes would transfer the two gases at a different rate so that the CO2 could be separated and sequestered. Sequestering CO2 is a key strategy to help curb global warming. Contact: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA 94550, USA. Tel: +1 925 422 1100, www.llnl.gov Porifera Inc, 3507 Breakwater Avenue, Hayward, CA 94545, USA. Tel: +1 510 695 2777, www.poriferanano.com
February 2010